Last Updated on October 11, 2020
These curated resource lists coincide with the order of the topic ideas listed in the NHD 2017 theme sample topics list. Links lead to additional curated sets of resources. Note: historic newspaper coverage is from 1789-1922.
Taking a Stand Against the British: The Reorganization of the Continental Army at Valley Forge
Roger Williams’ Stand Against Exile: The Establishment of Rhode Island
Thurgood Marshall: Taking a Stand in Court Against Segregation
The Power of Words: Thomas Paine’s Fight Against Tyranny
The War on Poverty: [Lyndon B.] Johnson Stands for “The Other America”
Taking a Stand in Art: [John Singleton] Copley’s Artistic Fight Against the British
- John Singleton Copley historic newspaper coverage
Horace Mann and the Fight for Quality Education
Protecting the Environment: The Establishment of the National Park Service
Protestants and the Fight for Temperance: The Founding of the American Temperance Society
William Jennings Bryan: Standing Against Evolution
Nat Turner: Taking a Stand Against Slavery
- The Confessions of Nat Turner (published 1832)
- Nat Turner’s Insurrection (delivered July 30, 1889 by Geo. H. Burks, attorney and councilor at law)
- Nat Turner historic newspaper coverage
- Primary Source Spotlight: Slavery (U.S.)
Standing for Separation of Church and School: Engel vs. Vitale
- Facts and Case Summary – Engel v. Vitale Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts
Muhammad Ali: Taking a Stand Against the Vietnam War
Andrew Jackson’s Stand Against the Bank
- The U.S. Bank and the Whigs America’s Library
- Second Bank of the United States resources
Betty Friedan: Taking a Stand For Women’s Rights
The Pullman Strike of 1894: Taking a Stand for the Workers
- Pullman Strike background information Encyclopedia of Chicago
- The Great Railroad Strike of 1894 personal narrative
- Pullman strike 1894 historical newspaper coverage
- Collection connections: the Pullman Strike
- “Report on the Chicago strike of June-July, 1894” by the United States Strike Commission 1894
- The insurrection of June and July 1894, growing out of the Pullman strike at Chicago, Ill. 1894
- The government in the Chicago strike of 1894 by Grover Cleveland 1913
- Pullman strike image set
- The town of Pullman, Illinois–the homes and wages of the Pullman operatives
- Pullman Industrial ComplexPullman Porters – Topics in Chronicling America
- Historic newspaper coverage: Pullman town
More resources
- NHD 2017 U.S. History Topic Ideas Part II
- NHD 2017 European History Topic Ideas Part I
- NHD 2017 European History Topic Ideas Part II
- NHD 2017: World History Topic Ideas
- NHD 2017: World History Topic Ideas Part II
- NHD 2017: Selecting a Topic for a History Project
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